An evident display of Popish practises, or patched Pelagianism Wherein is mightily cleared the…An euident display of Popish practises, or patched Pelagianisme Wherein is mightelie cleared the…

It remaineth that I answer to the other which you use to seek, that is, where it is written in the books of God, that Adam fell not without Gods decree. In deed we marvel at this new Religion in an Academical man, and which denieth the word of God, howsoever it be taken, to be sufficient to deceive the controversies of Religion. But least we seem to retire, first I ask of thee ⟨p. 74⟩where thou hast expressly read that the Angels were created of God? Thou haste I think no place more manifest then that of John,¹ that all things are made the eternal word of God, and without it to be made nothing of those which be made. But why may not I by the like reason for confirmation of that matter which is in question, bring that saying of Paul,² that God doth all things for his wills sake? For thou must grant of necessity that God hath ever been the same. Then, seeing the same Apostle doth aptly witness,³ that God like unto a Potter had ordained of one lump certain vessels to honour and mercy, and certain to reproach and wrath, how wilt thou wrest this saying, that thou mayest not ascend to the very workmanship of Adam? For the name of lump doth not agree with mankind created, but to be created much less that by the name of a lump, should be understood mankind corrupted. And I call that mankind to be created, not only that which God had not yet in very deed created, but also he neither considered or beheld as created, much less as corrupted. For if the Apostle should have staid in the sin or corruption of Adam, as in the highest degree of all causes of election and reprobation, that is, if he would this similitude to be understood of men created, and the same depraved, either in very deed or by the foreknowledge of God. Certes it could not have been said that God did make the vassals of wrath, but that in miserable state those whom he foreknew would be, or which already were the vassals of wrath. But so should the whole proportion of the similitude be frustrate, which if it hold not in this point, say I pray thee wherefore Paul hath used it, and tell us wherefore he hath cried out so vehemently, O man, who art thou? for if it should be so, why should they complain of that which belongeth to the vessels of mercy? but if on the other side corruption be the